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Overview

Wai Tat Chiu is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with notable contributions in clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and health.

The scientist has a significant publication record centered on topics related to mental health treatment and access, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health disparities and outcomes, suicide and self-harm studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, as well as schizophrenia research and treatment.

Among Wai Tat Chiu's recent research outputs are several papers published in well-recognized peer-reviewed journals:

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Changes in Prevalence of Mental Illness Among US Adults During Compared with Before the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Psychiatric Clinics of North America
  • Patterns and correlates of patient-reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys, 2022, World Psychiatry

Wai Tat Chiu has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, enhancing multidisciplinary perspectives in their work. These co-authors include:

  • Ronald C. Kessler (17 joint publications)
  • Jordi Alonso (16 joint publications)
  • Fernando Navarro-Mateu (15 joint publications)
  • Nancy A. Sampson (14 joint publications)
  • Meredith Harris (14 joint publications)

Their papers are frequently published in notable scientific venues such as The Lancet Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, and World Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Ronald C. Kessler;Wai Tat Chiu;Olga Demler;Ellen E. Walters

  • Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts

    Matthew K. Nock;Guilherme Borges;Evelyn J. Bromet;Jordi Alonso

  • The epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    A M Ruscio;D J Stein;D J Stein;W T Chiu;R C Kessler

  • The prevalence and correlates of binge eating disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Patricia A. Berglund;Wai Tat Chiu;Anne C. Deitz

  • Social fears and social phobia in the USA: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ayelet Meron Ruscio;Timothy A. Brown;Wai Tat Chiu;Jitender Sareen

  • Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Wai Tat Chiu;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • The epidemiology of panic attacks, panic disorder, and agoraphobia in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Wai Tat Chiu;Robert Jin;Ayelet Meron Ruscio

  • The US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS‐R): design and field procedures

    Ronald C. Kessler;Patricia A. Berglund;Wai Tat Chiu;Olga Demler

  • Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Philip S Wang;Matthias C Angermeyer;Guilherme Borges;Ronny Bruffaerts

  • Socio-economic variations in the mental health treatment gap for people with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys

    S Evans-Lacko;S Aguilar-Gaxiola;A Al-Hamzawi;J Alonso

  • Psychotic Experiences in the General Population: A Cross-National Analysis Based on 31 261 Respondents From 18 Countries

    John J. McGrath;John J. McGrath;Sukanta Saha;Sukanta Saha;Ali Al-Hamzawi;Jordi Alonso

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries.

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  • Childhood adversities as risk factors for onset and persistence of suicidal behaviour.

    Ronny Bruffaerts;Koen Demyttenaere;Guilherme Borges;Josep Maria Haro

  • Cross-national analysis of the associations between traumatic events and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.

    Dan J. Stein;Wai Tat Chiu;Irving Hwang;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Treatment of suicidal people around the world

    Ronny Bruffaerts;K. Demyttenaere;I. Hwang;W. T. Chiu

  • Evaluating the drug use “gateway” theory using cross-national data: Consistency and associations of the order of initiation of drug use among participants in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Lisa Dierker;Lisa Dierker;Wai Tat Chiu;Maria Elena Medina-Mora

  • The bidirectional associations between psychotic experiences and DSM-IV mental disorders

    John J. McGrath;Sukanta Saha;Ali Al-Hamzawi;Laura Helena Andrade

  • Chronic physical conditions and their association with first onset of suicidal behavior in the world mental health surveys.

    Kate M. Scott;Irving Hwang;Wai-Tat Chiu;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Cancer Patients' Desires for Communication of Prognosis Information

    Stan A Kaplowitz;Shelly Campo;Wai Tat Chiu

  • Broadening the definition of generalized anxiety disorder: Effects on prevalence and associations with other disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Ayelet Meron Ruscio;Wai Tat Chiu;Peter Roy-Byrne;Paul E. Stang

  • Does the 'gateway' matter? Associations between the order of drug use initiation and the development of drug dependence in the National Comorbidity Study Replication.

    L. Degenhardt;W. T. Chiu;K. Conway;L. Dierker

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Chiyi Hu
Chiyi Hu University of California, Davis
Viviane Kovess-Masfety
Viviane Kovess-Masfety Université Paris Cité
Robert J. Ursano
Robert J. Ursano Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Anthony J. Rosellini
Anthony J. Rosellini Boston University
Ayelet Meron Ruscio
Ayelet Meron Ruscio University of Pennsylvania
Evelyn J. Bromet
Evelyn J. Bromet Stony Brook University
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Brendan Bunting
Brendan Bunting University of Ulster

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